The '''rocロック鳥''' is an enormous legendary [[bird of prey]] in the popular mythology of the [[Middle East]]. (roc)は、中東の神話に登場する伝説の巨大な猛禽類である。
The roc appears in Arab geographies and natural history, popularized in Arabian fairy tales and sailors' folklore. ロック鳥はアラブの地理学や博物学に登場し、アラブの童話や船乗りの民話として親しまれてきた。 [[Ibn Battuta]]<!-- (iv. 305ff) --> tells of a mountain hovering in the air over the China Seas, which was the roc.<ref>Noted in Yule-Cordier, ''Cathay and the Way Thither'' IV (1916:146), noted by Wittkower 1938.</ref> The story collection ''[[One Thousand and One Nights]]'' includes tales of [[Abd al-Rahman]] and [[Sinbad the Sailor]], both of which include the roc.
==Etymology==